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President Obama is viewed favorably around the world, but his popularity hasn't worked any magic on the image of the US, Tom Schaller writes on FiveThirtyEight. A new poll of people in 20 countries finds the average global opinion of the role the US plays in the world is 41% negative to 39% positive, about the same as it was a year ago. “Most people around the world seem to have a positive view of the young new captain at the helm of the American ship of state,” the authors write, “though many people see this huge ship as still carrying forward domineering policies."

US policy is much more popular in Western Europe and Africa than in the Muslim world and China. Positives range from a high of 81% in Kenya to a low of 10% in Pakistan; negatives from 72% in Turkey to 15% in Taiwan and Kenya.

Yes, the destiny of the plant's last empire is finally becoming quite clearly manifest, C_k-- and it aint a pretty for the vast majority of God's children. Your vision apparently is far more pleasing-- lucky you.

GreekChorus

Jul 10, 2009 3:12 AM CDT

This article, like the vast majority of such articles, fails to differentiate between the US CITIZENRY, and the US GOVERNMENT. Generally speaking, the US government's polices do not represent those of the individual citizens (just as most governments' policies do not represent their individual citizens), no matter how much those governments (and most media outlets) would suggest otherwise.

DarkFrancis

Jul 9, 2009 9:47 AM CDT

And this kind of bullshit is why. The world sees America taking positive steps and applauds that, then they go online and see drooling, insular, neocon gobshites spouting off on blogs and places like Yahoo! Answers...what are they to think?